In its final rule, CMS included behavioral health and low-risk maternal labor and delivery on the list of services allowed under the rural...Read More »
Ensure safeguards against sink splash in areas designated for clean medication preparation or face potential citations from surveyors, especially...Read More »
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will soon be soliciting comment on a proposed rule to strengthen protections “against conscience...Read More »
Acute care hospitals in rural areas with 50 beds or less or facilities that qualify as critical access hospitals might want to consider converting...Read More »
Concerns relating to violence in the healthcare workplace has been with us a long time (was there ever a time when it wasn’t somewhere in the mix...Read More »
Recommended steps to prevent workplace violence in hospitals include ensuring workers receive adequate training, having sufficient staffing levels...Read More »
CMS wants hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers, “especially those delivering care in congregate care settings,” to protect...Read More »
When standards have been realigned in the past, certain “requirements” were dropped off, but some of those things never really went away, mostly...Read More »
